An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6320-00-004-9158
NSN 7035-00-620-6835
NSN 7035-01-661-0789
NSN 5835-01-118-4690
NSN 5905-01-649-4030
NSN 6320-01-338-6006
NSN 6130-01-639-8149
NSN 5975-00-061-7035
NSN 5965-00-917-0455
NSN 5965-01-082-0739
NSN 6620-00-905-6590
NSN 6320-01-547-2743